December 12, 2009
River Cities’ Reader – “Escaping the Trap: The Mieka Canon”
author: mieka
excerpt:
…there’s an obvious chemistry between the singer and the band. The EP’s “Colossal” melds Pauley’s powerful voice with the band’s musical color in a way reminiscent of Aimee Mann, but with serious soul and some arena-rock aspirations. Lovely gives way to a big-rock climax, and it’s nearly undeniable.
April 11, 2009
my daytrotter session
author: mieka
I’ve been obsessed with daytrotter for a while, and I finally got to stop by their studios in the quad cities while on tour last fall. the session got posted today – I am so happy with how the piece turned out – daytrotter puts the art back into the music scene. I recorded, acoustic & live-to-two-track, #1 a new-ish song “We’re All Gonna Die”; #2 a cover of my friend noam weinstein‘s “When I Get My”; #3 the first track from my last album (elijah drop your gun) “All The Same Mistakes”; and #4 the a capella “Marked Man”.
here’s an excerpt from their write-up:
Beauty In The Business Of Toughness
Words by Sean Moeller // Illustration by Johnnie Cluney // Sound engineering by Mike Gentry
…She brings words to her tongue that don’t feel to be of difficult conception, as if they are the particles that have just been swishing around her canals and veins for all of her eternity, which is the only eternity that matters much. They are the pieces of her that she’s never going to get rid of and it comes out as music that will make you feel minty and it will make you feel misty and just the right temperature – where the sun’s blazing down on you on an otherwise chilly day. She takes fate on a day-to-day basis and that could be the smartest thing anyone can do. You carve your own way or whittle your own coffin.
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